Building and Installing XEmacs on Windows NT
David Hobley
Marc Paquette
Jonathan Harris
Currently XEmacs for Win32 is in an early stage of development.
The port was made much easier by the groundbreaking work of Geoff Voelker
and others who worked on the GNU Emacs port to NT. Their version is available
from http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
To get it working you will need:
1. You will need Visual C++ V4.2 or later to compile everything. Personally we
have tested V4.2 and V5.0.
2. Grab the latest XEmacs beta from ftp.xemacs.org if necessary. All Win32
support is in the nt/ subdirectory.
3. Edit the xemacs.mak file and ensure variables point to the correct place.
Note that Visual C++ assumes a couple of environment variables INCLUDE and
LIB to be set which specify the location of the includes and libraries.
At this point you can select X or Win32 native support.
4. Run make. I simply use nmake -f xemacs.mak. This will build temacs, the
DOC file, if startup.elc does not exist it will update the elc's and
then it will dump xemacs.
5. The build process creates debugging and "Source Browser" information for
use with MS DevStudio. To use this create a new "console" project and set
the Project/Settings/Debug executable name to the full path of
src\xemacs.exe. Remember to close the Source Browser file in DevStudio
before rebuilding.
6. If you're going to edit sources I recommend that you first get a copy of
makedepend and make a list of dependencies in the makefile by doing
"nmake -f xemacs.mak depend". I (jhar) have a hacked-up copy of X11R5
makedepend which I can distribute if anyone wants it. Is there a real
version anywhere which handles '\' as the path delimiter?
If you want support for X you will need:
1. An X server. MI/X is available on the Internet for free; It is
available from: http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mixdlfrm.htm
2. The MIT X11R6.3 libraries available from: ftp.x.org
3. You'll need to compile the MIT libraries without multi-thread support.
To do this, there is an example Win32.cf and site.def provided which
set the relevant flags. You will also need to apply the patch in
nt/X11.patch in the xc/lib/X11 directory which will fix the DLL definition
file. Once compiled and installed, you will need to apply the following
patch to Xmd.h. This is messy and better solutions would be appreciated.
--- Xmd.h~ Thu Jun 08 23:20:40 1995
+++ Xmd.h Sun Mar 16 13:09:10 1997
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@
typedef CARD16 BITS16;
typedef CARD8 BYTE;
+#ifndef WIN32
typedef CARD8 BOOL;
-
+#endif
Known Problems:
Please look at the TODO list for the current list of problems and people
working on them.
Any other problems you need clarified, please email us and we will endeavour
to provide any assistance we can:
The XEmacs NT Mailing List: xemacs-nt@xemacs.org
Subscribe address: xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org
David Hobley
Marc Paquette
August Hill
Jonathan Harris
and others.